Investigators search for mother of infant girl discovered in creek

GREEN HILL, Ind. -- Investigators have asked for the public's help finding the mother of an infant girl whose body was recovered in a rural western Indiana creek last weekend.\nInvestigators were awaiting an autopsy report on the time and cause of the girl's death.\nDetectives want to talk with any woman who would have reached full term pregnancy during August or early September, but does not have a child to show for it or who offers a suspicious explanation about the child, state police Sgt. Hunter Reece said.\nA pathologist is trying to determine whether the child was thrown from the 65-foot-high one-lane bridge or was placed in the creek about 10 miles west of Lafayette in Warren County.\nAuthorities said the creek's waters were too shallow to carry the body downstream to where two girls found it about 5 p.m. Sunday.\n"At this time, we cannot rule out that the child very well could have been dropped from the bridge," Reece said.\nAlso yet to be determined is the possibility that the infant might have been stillborn.\n"That's what the pathologist is looking into," Reece said. "They feel confident they should be able to make that assessment. But it may take some time until we get the results back from several examinations."\nCommunity members are making plans for a funeral service and burial for the child.\n"I think there will be a large attendance to it," Warren County Sheriff Bill Miller said. "We've had several calls -- people wanting to help or make donations"